I've kind of wanted to make a new quintet of metallic dragons for a while. I know there are a lot of said dragons (including previous version of the game) but it strikes me as odd that dragons of a metallic alloy are part of the primary 5, when dragons of the metals necessary for those alloys are not. So I've come up with ideas, just baseline ideas mind you, for five new metallic dragons.
Aluminium Dragon: Aluminium is significantly heat and acid resistant and is as a result the dragon is also resistant to fire and acid, but it breathes a line of lightning as it's breath weapon. A nod to a myth that the first aluminium could be forged only with lightning. Their secondary breath weapon is a cone of fine particulate matter that can cause the target to start coughing and choking. They tend to be slender and silvery-white in color, light weight and fast.
Bismuth Dragon: Bismuth Dragons are of medium size but their scales scintillate with colors of pinks and blues. Their Breath Weapon is a Cone of Fire, or a cone of crystallizing gas that can petrify targets for a short time.
Lead Dragon: Heavy in weight and dark in color, Lead Dragons are slow and can't be bothered with most things. They are heavily resistant to poison damage and can breath either a gout of poisonous gas that poisons the target, or a stream of molten lead which would deal fire damage.
Tin Dragon: Lightweight and swift like the Aluminium dragon but much less durable. Tin dragons are pale yellowish silver in color. Their first Breath Weapon is a Cone of screeching deafening sonic energy referencing the "tin cry" of bending tin. This cone can render targets deaf. Their second breath weapon is a short range line of radiant energy from refocused reflected light.
Titanium Dragon: Similar in build to the Aluminium Dragon, Titanium dragons are lightweight but are lustrously silver in color. They are significantly resistant to corrosives, more so that the aluminium dragon (who divides it's resistances between fire and acid). Titanium dragons breath a line of acid, but also a cone of black smoke that can act like a smoke screen (referencing Titanium tetracholride).
These are just ideas at the moment, I don't have any stats built yet, but I wanted a general amount of criticism or creative ides to go with them. I intend to also create Tumbaga Dragons (from the 4e Orium Dragon) as well as a Pewter Dragon to add to the Brass, Bronze, and Steel dragons.
The original 5 represent the most valuable, or “precious,” metals in antiquity. Gold and Silver are obvious. (Historically speaking, Platinum was considered rather worthless and was used as a filler in silver ingots, there were whole formulas developed to determine how much worthless platinum was actually in the silver based in water displacement, among other things.) Bronze and Brass were (and still are) rather valuable, and native Copper was one of the first metals mankind ever learned to work, so it was (and still is) considered rather valuable and important. Mercury, Tin, Aluminum , etc are all considered rather “base metals.” In fact, European Alchemy primarily focused on attempting to transform base metals into Gold or Silver.
Since dragons are so mighty and “precious” themselves, why would there be any “base metal dragons?” If you’re going to do it, I might instead consider making those some form of lesser dragons or dragonkin. Just a thought.
Since dragons are so mighty and “precious” themselves, why would there be any “base metal dragons?” If you’re going to do it, I might instead consider making those some form of lesser dragons or dragonkin. Just a thought.
That is my intent, to make them metallic dragons but less than the Gold, Silver, and Mithral dragons that already exist. Obvious not all metallic dragons are made equal, but if Iron, Tungsten, Cobalt, Chromium, Nickle, and other "base metal" dragons exist (which they do), why not Titanium, Tin, Bismuth, Lead, or Aluminium (which when first synthesized from alumina and alum was worth more than it's weight in gold and was extremely valuable)
There are plenty of metalic dragons in DnD that aren't the main 5. Take, for example, the entire ferrous dragon subset (iron, steel, cobalt, nickel). The nature of the draconis fundamentum makes dragon anatomy/magic incredibly adaptable. A dragon exposed to high amounts of a raw material/environment/magic/etc. over an extended period of time could be expected to either mutate or sire a different kind of dragon. A few examples of this happening in the lore are shadow dragons, rust dragons, and brainstealer dragons. I could easily conceive a faerie dragon mutating into some form of a mushroom dragon over time. Task, the dragonic god of greed has a hide so studded with coins, gems, etc. that is is said to be impossible to determine what kind of dragon he is. My answer, literally a greed/treasure dragon.
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I've kind of wanted to make a new quintet of metallic dragons for a while. I know there are a lot of said dragons (including previous version of the game) but it strikes me as odd that dragons of a metallic alloy are part of the primary 5, when dragons of the metals necessary for those alloys are not. So I've come up with ideas, just baseline ideas mind you, for five new metallic dragons.
Aluminium Dragon: Aluminium is significantly heat and acid resistant and is as a result the dragon is also resistant to fire and acid, but it breathes a line of lightning as it's breath weapon. A nod to a myth that the first aluminium could be forged only with lightning. Their secondary breath weapon is a cone of fine particulate matter that can cause the target to start coughing and choking. They tend to be slender and silvery-white in color, light weight and fast.
Bismuth Dragon: Bismuth Dragons are of medium size but their scales scintillate with colors of pinks and blues. Their Breath Weapon is a Cone of Fire, or a cone of crystallizing gas that can petrify targets for a short time.
Lead Dragon: Heavy in weight and dark in color, Lead Dragons are slow and can't be bothered with most things. They are heavily resistant to poison damage and can breath either a gout of poisonous gas that poisons the target, or a stream of molten lead which would deal fire damage.
Tin Dragon: Lightweight and swift like the Aluminium dragon but much less durable. Tin dragons are pale yellowish silver in color. Their first Breath Weapon is a Cone of screeching deafening sonic energy referencing the "tin cry" of bending tin. This cone can render targets deaf. Their second breath weapon is a short range line of radiant energy from refocused reflected light.
Titanium Dragon: Similar in build to the Aluminium Dragon, Titanium dragons are lightweight but are lustrously silver in color. They are significantly resistant to corrosives, more so that the aluminium dragon (who divides it's resistances between fire and acid). Titanium dragons breath a line of acid, but also a cone of black smoke that can act like a smoke screen (referencing Titanium tetracholride).
These are just ideas at the moment, I don't have any stats built yet, but I wanted a general amount of criticism or creative ides to go with them. I intend to also create Tumbaga Dragons (from the 4e Orium Dragon) as well as a Pewter Dragon to add to the Brass, Bronze, and Steel dragons.
Mercury, a mix between a poison based dragon and an elemental.
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The original 5 represent the most valuable, or “precious,” metals in antiquity. Gold and Silver are obvious. (Historically speaking, Platinum was considered rather worthless and was used as a filler in silver ingots, there were whole formulas developed to determine how much worthless platinum was actually in the silver based in water displacement, among other things.) Bronze and Brass were (and still are) rather valuable, and native Copper was one of the first metals mankind ever learned to work, so it was (and still is) considered rather valuable and important. Mercury, Tin, Aluminum , etc are all considered rather “base metals.” In fact, European Alchemy primarily focused on attempting to transform base metals into Gold or Silver.
Since dragons are so mighty and “precious” themselves, why would there be any “base metal dragons?” If you’re going to do it, I might instead consider making those some form of lesser dragons or dragonkin. Just a thought.
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That is my intent, to make them metallic dragons but less than the Gold, Silver, and Mithral dragons that already exist. Obvious not all metallic dragons are made equal, but if Iron, Tungsten, Cobalt, Chromium, Nickle, and other "base metal" dragons exist (which they do), why not Titanium, Tin, Bismuth, Lead, or Aluminium (which when first synthesized from alumina and alum was worth more than it's weight in gold and was extremely valuable)
Mercury Dragon: basically a T1000 dragon. Vulnerable to cold damage. Poison breath weapon. Liquid form: it can pass through small holes.
I'm aware, they had stats in 2e, 3.5 and 4e, I'm trying to come up with new dragons, not rehash old ones.
There are plenty of metalic dragons in DnD that aren't the main 5. Take, for example, the entire ferrous dragon subset (iron, steel, cobalt, nickel). The nature of the draconis fundamentum makes dragon anatomy/magic incredibly adaptable. A dragon exposed to high amounts of a raw material/environment/magic/etc. over an extended period of time could be expected to either mutate or sire a different kind of dragon. A few examples of this happening in the lore are shadow dragons, rust dragons, and brainstealer dragons. I could easily conceive a faerie dragon mutating into some form of a mushroom dragon over time. Task, the dragonic god of greed has a hide so studded with coins, gems, etc. that is is said to be impossible to determine what kind of dragon he is. My answer, literally a greed/treasure dragon.